Documentarian Karel Vachek, will be on view in the United States, in retrospectives of his documentaries at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Made between 1963 (the very beginning of the Prague Spring) and 2006 (two years after the Czech Republic's

31 October 2011

WARSAW: Czech producer Radim Prochazka was awarded the FNE Visegrad Prix for Obscurantist and His Lineage or the Pyramids' Tearful Valleys (Tmář a jeho rod aneb Slzavé údolí pyramid). The prix was awarded at the closing ceremony of the 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (www.dokument-festival.com) on

The Film Study Center is pleased to welcome Karel Vachek, the groundbreaking Czech filmmaker whose works mix cinema verité, improvisation, and staged scenes into a fascinating perspective on the political and intellectual history of the Czech Republic.

More at http://filmstudycenter.org/…/vachek.html

Throughout 2009, there will be a series of U.S. retrospectives of the films of Karel Vachek, one of the most original Czech filmmakers and winner of the 1990 Berlinale Golden Camera.

Karel Vachek: Poet Provocateur

The first complete retrospective ever screened in the United States will be held from

It’s rare indeed that you get a chance to see a director’s entire body of work—let alone one almost entirely unknown outside his or her home country. But all that is exactly what’s on offer at the Pacific Film Archive over the next four weeks, as it hosts “Karel Vachek:

Dear friends of Karel Vachek! „Reżyser, poeta, filozof, jeden z najwyrazistszych twórców czeskiego filmu dokumentalnego“ has it´s own website in Polish language as well.

See arkanastudio.pl